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White women may swear they’re down for the cause, but we all know when it comes to feminism, their blues ain’t like ours and Franchesca Ramsey demonstrated that perfectly in a late night post reporting on what happens when you try to call white feminists...

I was 22 when I enrolled in a Black Feminist Thought graduate class. I’d just discovered journalist Joan Morgan’s seminal book, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down, which writer Kia Miakka Wood describes as a text “that addressed the...

In the words of Colonel Nathan R. Jessup from A Few Good Men, “You can’t handle the truth.” And that’s exactly what a lot of white people are proving once again online with their asinine reactions to Amandla Stenberg’s viral video on cultural appropriation. Just...